Proactive cues facilitate faster action reprogramming, but not stopping, in a response-selective stop signal task.

ABSTRACT: The ability to stop simple ongoing actions has been extensively studied using the stop signal task, but less is known about inhibition in more complex scenarios. Here we used a task requiring bimanual responses to go stimuli, but selective inhibition of only one of those responses following a stop signal. We assessed how proactive cues affect the nature of both the responding and stopping processes, and the well-documented stopping delay (interference effect) in the continuing action following successful stopping. In this task, estimates of the speed of inhibition based on a simple-stopping model are inappropriate, and have produced inconsistent findings about the effects of proactive control on motor inhibition. We instead used a multi-modal approach, based on improved methods of detectin

SUBMITTER: Salomoni SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10638309 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature